THE SOCIAL GATHERING AT ASHTON.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1509, 17 March 1887, Page 2

THE SOCIAL GATHERING AT ASHTON.

TO THH BDITOft. ?ib, — From the number of your correspondents I am afraid the fictitious rrprt of the above meeting, which ap« peaed In your paper, which, as you etalb, wan forwarded you, and which I ondeavoared to expose, has oausnd wrath m the camp Had the Individual who drew it ip not overstepped the bound" of prudence and truth th« matter would nevir have been oalled m question. Tha» twaddle written by your several correspondents shows that they are entirely iguorant of tin facts of the osba, settled fon" months »go. I will take this opportunity of stating that any corrct. poadenoe on my ptrt has been forced upon me from the leading action taken by Ihe late master and his so-called friends m always parading matter m th« public print, reflecting on myself and others oonneoted with the Committee, The last aot of four or five persona meeting m the master's house and then •iraniug up a grand report of a sooial gathering of the parents at Ashton School, where the publio are told several gentle* mon delivered epeoohes foreboding dire calamities at "the loss, etc," speaks for itaelf . Yonr correspondent, J, Oroy, i» entirely beneath my notice farther than to say m the words of Brett H&rte, "for ways that are dark aud for trloks *hat b re vain "hels a man that is truely "pecaliar." lam, etc, G. GItMOUR.